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December Daemon News Released

Posted by timothy on from the still-hot dept.

LiquidPC writes "The new Daemon News is out. This month there are various articles such as Lightweight FTP jail with NAT, Getting More NetInfo Backups, Setting Up Sophos + Amavis For Postfix. And, of course, the usual Newbie's Corner, Answer Man, and Daemon's Advocate columns."

14 comments

  1. Sophos? by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 1, Troll


    How come? BSD can't get viruses.

    1. Re:Sophos? by Ded+Bob · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The Windows machines behind the FreeBSD (or any other BSD OS) certainly can. This sounds like a good idea for a project on my home LAN. My wife will love it. ;)

    2. Re:Sophos? by Blkdeath · · Score: 3, Interesting
      I'm posting this against my better judgement so I'm removing my +1. I can't tell if you're being serious or trolling.
      How come? BSD can't get viruses.
      1. Any operating system can get viruses. How the OS is designed and the installation configured to combat the spread of the virus is what makes BSD / UNIX / Linux based platforms undesireable targets for viral attack.
      2. BSD OSs are often used as production mail servers for small to large installations, including, more often than not, a majority of Windows clients. Sophos, IIRC, has the ability to scan mail and/or mail spools to detect and prevent the spread of these viruses to client machines.
      --
      BD Phone Home!

      Shameless plug. Like you weren't expecting it.

    3. Re:Sophos? by Blkdeath · · Score: 4, Informative
      BSD OSs are often used as production mail servers for small to large installations, including, more often than not, a majority of Windows clients. Sophos, IIRC, has the ability to scan mail and/or mail spools to detect and prevent the spread of these viruses to client machines.
      My apologies; I'm guilty of the very same crime as Mr. Penfold. I didn't RTFA. A quote from the article describing the Sophos story;
      Protecting a system against viruses is an important thing for every system administrator. Although there is no real threat from viruses on UNIX, some users may use Windows OS on their home PCs. What I am going to offer you in this article is a somewhat tricky installation of Postfix, Amavis and Sophos.
      --
      BD Phone Home!

      Shameless plug. Like you weren't expecting it.

  2. Re:Woah by Trusty+Penfold · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or two minutes afterwards, depending on which direction you measure time in your part of the universe.

  3. In other news, time marches on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Come on - scheduled events are not news. Think about ot.